Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-04-10


exposition Of Irish grievances and Eng
lish prosecutions.
At the close of the Presidents sd.
dress Captain O'loOle read the follow.
ing:
LITTER FROM JUDGE GREENE.
SEATTLE. April 8, 1887.
10 Thas. T. Minor. Esq, President Of
the Seattle Mass Meeting FdUoriHg Irish
Home Rule-Sir: Circumstances IN
foreseen and imperative prevent me
from fulfilling my expectation Of being
with nv fellow citizens in mass meet
ing tsnight, but nothing will prevent
ne from being heartily with Seattle and
the country in the objects Of the mset
ing. nor from giving in this way q short
expression of my mind.
Ireland, down-trodden and vrithinQ
under EugIand's heel, certainly de-
serves the sympathy of free America.
The fact is, that Ireland is misgoverned
and has been for seven centuries. Hers
is not the case of a mere section OF a
homogeneous population casually dis.
satisfied with judieious measures
adopted for the general welfare in a
Parliament in which she was fairly and
fully represented. She is a nation by
herself-a great nation-Rreat in num-
bers, great in antiquity, great in her
achievements, great in her historic
benefactions in peace and prowess in
war, great in the eminenoe and glory of
her individual sons, great in the re-
sources of her soil, great in the eapabili-
ties, the geRius, the long suffering and
the patriotism of her people, great IN
the possibilities OF greatness that open
out before her in oase she shall be
blessed With home rule and free govern
ment. Her calamity is. that she has
been and is governed by another nation,
or rather q class in another nation
vhich governs both it and her. She is
a standing and most ssd illustration OF
the political truth, that it is as unsafe
to commit the government Of q nation
or race TO another and irresponsible
race or nation, or to an irresponsible
class, as it is to an irresponsible Indi
| vidual, and that governmental power 50
entrusted in this world is sure TO bt
wrested TO selfish ACKNOWLEDGMENT oi
the ruler and to measareless misery oi
| the ruled.
rather than Ireland England? BY whAi
reason or. right does one nation pu
itself thus above another? Why shoult
any member Of the great British En-
| pire rule any other coordinate membe
OF il? Bat IL one member, by might
by tradition, by practice, arreGates sucl
domination to herself, il behOOves hei
to rule justly or she must face and
sooner or later yield to the merited con
demuation Of mankind and fall undel
the Just Judgment Of God.
That England has not cared for Ire
land as England has cherished herself
Is giarinRly apparent from even 3 yer,
slight comparative view OF the histOr!
and present condition Of the two oouu-
tries. There is no space here to handle
this matter. bot q few facts may b
touched. Within the last fifty year
the population of England and Vale
has increased from 100000 to 2, 600,
000, an increase of four-ffths Will
| the population of Ireland has dimin
ished from 100000 10 100000, a de-
crease OF three eiRhths. Although tn
latter couRtry has comparatively th
larger agricultural resources, and j
capable Of subsistinR a denser popnl, 4,
| ti0n, and for many branches Of indus
try. notably woelen and linen Rrowtl
and manufacture, ~ a. well or bette
adapted than ths former, yet IN England
there Vas in 1877 more than one mile o
railway TO every FIVE square miles o
area. while IN Ireland there va
only one mile Of railway TO every Il
miles Of area, and such vas the dispro
portion in railway travel that there "a
10 England on tue average y railvs,
rides per snn1m 20 each person, and /,
Ireland less than rides 10 every to-
persons. This is inclusive sf stree
railvsys and tramWsys. For huudreC
years Irish industries have been Et8rveC
sBd suffocsted, that English Withol
competition might thrive and fsiten
The nefArious Rnd crnel process Of die
lodRen1ent Of the people frsrn the sol
bas advanced mush farther IL irelang
shan IN England, notwithstanding Ire
laRd is by nstars and habit more De
cidadlg agricultural 10 1871, N Eng
land. one person IN twenty owned land
ia Ireland. Only one person IL seventy
nins. IH England, there vsre 20 eacs
lard owner sn average OF I dwelliBR'
aud 831f acres; 10 Ireland, SJ3 acres sus
II dzellings. OF irish land owners
more than half were Ebssutees, ans
more than one foaFtn Il am b
sure bot more than twO-iuird--
resided Ia foreign pAFts Il
Ireland, the peFcsntsRe Of iilItersey %
one-hRlf greater, and tne pereantAge O
p4uperism neariy twice as great 80 u
England. Even their relig1oas conT,e
items, the IFisa have rot been slasre,
30 form and maintain without molssis
ton They hsve been harsssed and isE
meuiei by eoeFci0R and persecution
bills II lo1z s1cesssion, too sioksufnE 8
rscoaut. In shaFt. ths history % IrelAn
for ths last 100 years eas been tbks Q
forced aod hzrsh sat jsciioa % AZ over
p9xeEing nsighboF Nsu0n. That Ma
tons psiicy towards her has oeen ru1E
les csuqaust and domination. ranDiD
20 TIE e1tFue ieaztks Of bitter and p=i
sssseat Ftltgi3Gs psrsecotic1, visien
| ana crzEi changes II the relation Of ~
eeople 70 he solL arbitrary and TiolsU